Table 4.
Gross beta radioactivity of six species of land plants collected at Belle Island,
Eniwetok Atoll,
April 14,
1954 to April 26,
1956 expressed in uc/kg of wet
tissue at time of collection.
Collection
date
A.
Leaves
Scorched* Basal Terminal Shoot
Entire
Stems
Bark
Internal
0.35
560
1800
i10
Flowers
and
Fruits
Roots
Tops
Messerschmidia argentea
4-14-54
5-22
6-1
4200
6-19
8-5
9-7
10-5
11-2
11-30
130
4.6
15
16
0.23
17
2.8
1.2
4.4
1.4
0.43 0.31
0.34
0.52
0.20
0.62
1-18-55
2-9
3-15
11-1
0.20
0.24
0.27
0.48
4-26-56
0.42
*uc/kg of dry tissue
0. 60
43
0,17
.
26
0. 64
2.1
0.05
0.13
0.58
0.12
0.18
0.19
0.16
0.28
0.14
0.40
,
0.81
0.44
0. 82
0.42
2.1
0.48
0.64
920
54
0.57
0.61
0.23
0,20
0.092
0.18
0.13
0. 26
0.92
0.077
0.10
0.53
0. 50
0.32
0.40
39
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